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NINCIS ASENCIO

Austin,TX

Summary

Energetic Program Manager enthusiastic about developing deeper understanding of engineering design and leadership. Natural leader and networker with smart working, resourceful and competitive nature.


Program Manager I Change Agent I Master Organizer I Transformer of Processes and Culture I Ninja at Turning Chaos into Calm and Elevating Teams to Maximize their Potential I Fluent in Spanish & Emotional Intelligence

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

PMO Program Manager

STATE STREET CORP.
01.2024 - 07.2024


Highlights: IT Asset Management Program, PMO Process & Template Setup


Proactively manage the planning phase of an Enterprise IT Asset Management Program with a dependency on an audit due within 6 months.

  • Plan & execute all planning phase tasks of an Enterprise IT Asset Management Program positively impacting an audit closure.
  • Coordinate all planning program tasks against an aggressive timeline by driving brainstorming sessions with Vendors, Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Oversee subcontractor hiring process and track all required documentation and approvals.
  • Coach teams on project management practices

Critical Systems Engineering Program Manager

STATE STREET CORP.
11.2021 - 01.2024


Highlights: Cyber Vault, Diversity Champion, Audit Efforts Pipeline Plan & Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives


Resiliently manage a $21M program by exploiting all opportunities to bring all teams to consensus regarding scope, timeline and budget.

  • Successfully drive business requirements to align with scope.
  • Develop strong relationships with key-stakeholders across functional teams by facilitating effective communication and collaboration.
  • Optimize overall project timelines while managing multiple schedules (internal & vendors' schedules) to identify critical paths time, identify major risks and deploy strategies to efficiently mitigate them.

Cloud Security Technical Program Manager

WALMART INC.
12.2020 - 11.2021


Highlights: Sprint Planning, Cyber Policy Creation/Editing & EOL Servers Decommission


Efficiently manage multiple highly complex Cyber Security work-streams.

  • Successfully assemble and aligned project plan with immediate compliance & audit leadership goals through building cross-functional relationships and partnerships with key-stakeholders.
  • Recommend solutions to problems that help with the development, execution and improvement of action plans and project execution best practices.
  • Support efforts to meet customer and business needs by capitalizing on improvement opportunities.

Cyber Security Program Manager U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

LEIDOS INC.
09.2019 - 12.2020


Highlights: Enterprise Vulnerability Program & PMO Governance.


Setup a PMO for the Enterprise Vulnerability Program & Manage 4 direct reports.

  • Successfully manage a team of Project Managers and aspiring Project Managers, increasing productivity through identification of roles and responsibilities and by establishing a baseline for all project deliverables.
  • Lead design for Enterprise Vulnerability Management PMO SharePoint site, and templates that include: status dashboards, budget, risks, communication, issues, Bill of Materials, etc.
  • Establish project management best practices for managing all enterprise vulnerability program tasks, aligning all projects to EVMS objectives.
  • Engineer project management processes, resulting in more accurate reporting and accountability.

Information Security Program Manager, Research Cloud Security Compliance

STATE STREET CORPORATION
09.2018 - 09.2019


Highlights: Cloud Security & Compliance & Cloud Operations, Scrum Master for SRE & DevOps Teams


Drive all PM related tasks for Cloud Security, effectively manage all Cloud Security related tasks (timeline and resource management).

  • Successfully manage three engineering teams: Compliance & Governance, Operations, and Cloud Monitoring by establishing reporting procedures and improving inter & intra team communication, and sprint planning.
  • Create and manage Cloud Compliance & Governance schedule, resulting in accurate reporting to the PMO.
  • Formulate process improvement strategies leading to better execution of Waterfall & Agile projects across the Cloud organization.
  • Effectively managed stakeholders’ conflicting priorities, resulting in achieving Cloud Compliance goals.
  • Mentor Scrum teams and promote a self-organization culture while driving ad-hoc sessions to address impediments, resulting in more effective communication across teams.

Program Manager, Enterprise Information Security

CITY OF HOPE
05.2017 - 07.2018


Highlights: Payment Card Industry (PCI) Program & IT Asset Management Program


Effectively manage Information Security Programs and establish efficient program reporting.

  • Improve information security team morale by tailoring operational reporting to fit the CTO’s needs, demonstrating Information Security's team capabilities in addressing and identifying weak security areas.
  • Successfully align information security efforts with overall organizational and strategic initiatives that impacted all the Information Security Program components, goals, and objectives by achieving stakeholders’ consensus on the program roadmap.
  • Rescue a PCI failed project by interviewing key stakeholders to understand areas of weaknesses within the program and developing a roadmap that would address these areas and satisfy the program goals and objectives. Budget for PCI $4M.


Enterprise Information Security, Senior Project Manager

MUFG UNION BANK, N.A.
09.2016 - 05.2017


Highlights: Penetration Tests, & PKI Certificate Authority


Successfully managed the Planning Phase of an Enterprise Program.

  • Improve project team communication with vendor, project sponsor, and other globally located teams by actively driving white board working sessions.
  • Manage all project tasks successfully by adhering to rigorous and complex internal project management practices.

Cloud Technology/Program Manager

STATE STREET CORPORATION
05.2013 - 09.2016


Highlights: Business Apps Migration to Cloud, Hardware & Software Upgrade Security Portfolio


Support a business app migration program driven by Agile & Waterfall practices.

  • Created new change management processes which successfully migrated 250 business applications to a private cloud.
  • Drove Scrum & Infrastructure teams to achieve all projected project goals by closely managing all projects tasks and removing blockers.
  • Drove daily Task Force meetings to address immediate issues with all teams.

Education

MS in Project Management -

Northeastern University
05.2011

Bachelor of Arts -

University of Massachusetts
08.2002

Skills

  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Information Security
  • Compliance
  • CyberSecurity
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Audit
  • Scope Management
  • Project Status Reports
  • Schedule Management
  • Budget Management
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Problem-Solving
  • Time Management
  • Organizational Skills
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Risk Management
  • Vendor Management
  • MS Office Suite
  • Project Planning
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • MS Project

Affiliations

  • Scrum Alliance
  • Project Management Institute
  • ALPFA

Certification

  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
  • Public Trust

Languages

Spanish
Full Professional

Quote

Life is an adventure, go seize the day!
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Timeline

PMO Program Manager

STATE STREET CORP.
01.2024 - 07.2024

Critical Systems Engineering Program Manager

STATE STREET CORP.
11.2021 - 01.2024

Cloud Security Technical Program Manager

WALMART INC.
12.2020 - 11.2021

Cyber Security Program Manager U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

LEIDOS INC.
09.2019 - 12.2020

Information Security Program Manager, Research Cloud Security Compliance

STATE STREET CORPORATION
09.2018 - 09.2019

Program Manager, Enterprise Information Security

CITY OF HOPE
05.2017 - 07.2018

Enterprise Information Security, Senior Project Manager

MUFG UNION BANK, N.A.
09.2016 - 05.2017

Cloud Technology/Program Manager

STATE STREET CORPORATION
05.2013 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Arts -

University of Massachusetts

MS in Project Management -

Northeastern University
NINCIS ASENCIO